Timeseries of weekly population weighted average temperature anomalies by country

Jonas Schöley. cc-by. Last updated: 2023-10-19

MOCY provides time series of weekly death counts stratified by country, sex, and age along with useful covariates such as person-weeks exposure time, population-weighted weekly temperature, and public holiday indicators.

Sources

Weekly population-weighted average temperature by country and year calculated from:

Global gridded population 2010 [1]
Global national grid embedded in [1]
Daily global gridded temperature [2]

[1]: Center for International Earth Science Information Network - CIESIN - Columbia University. 2018. Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Count, Revision 11. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/H4JW8BX5.

[2]: CPC Global Temperature data provided by the NOAA/OAR/ESRL PSL, Boulder, Colorado, USA, from their Web site at https://psl.noaa.gov/. https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.cpc.globaltemp.html

Variable description

/out/tanomaly.csv

id variables

id: uniquely identifies rows; pattern: <region_iso, year, week>

strata

region_iso: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code
year: year as defined in ISO 8601 week date system
week: week as defined in ISO 8601 week date system [0, 53]

additional region information

region_name: natural name of region

observations

traw: average temperature in given week and region in degrees Celsius
twgt: population-weighted average temperature in given week and region in degrees Celsius
twgt_rsd: population-weighted average temperature anomaly in given week and region in degrees Celsius
twgt_zsc: population-weighted average temperature anomaly z-score in given week and region in degrees Celsius